The Shakedown Archives – YouTube Shorts
Quick clips of interviews, rare footage, and Grateful Dead history. Use the filters below to find shorts by person.
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The Grateful Dead Is a Family
Bill Walton Reflects On When Jerry Garcia Died
Bob Weir Seeing Jerry Garcia In His Dreams
The Night Fans Broke The Grateful Dead’s Trust System
Dan Healy On Creating the Taper Section At Grateful Dead Shows
Dan Healy Talks About His Audition For The Grateful Dead
Phil Lesh On LSD And Dead Heads
Tucker Carlson On Scoring A Miracle And Taking Mushrooms At A Grateful Dead Show
Bob Weir Discusses Death and Mortality
Bob Weir and Phil Lesh Telling Stories
Paul Simon On Meeting Bob Weir
Bob Weir on Perfecting Bobby McGee With Janis Joplin
Buddy Cage On Replacing Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia With The New Riders Of The Purple Sage Interview
Bobby Phil and Jerry Talk About Dead Heads
Jerry Garcia On Jimi Hendrix And The Monterey Pop Festival
Dennis McNally Reflects On Bob Weir’s Legacy
A Tribute To Bob Weir (Long Version)
A Tribute To Bob Weir (Short Version With Music)
RIP Bob Weir. Thank You For Always Giving Us One More Saturday Night
Dancin in the Streets
Bob Weir Gives a Strange Explanation of Keith and Donna’s Exit
Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Origins of Free Southern Rock Shows
Gregg Allman on Tragedy and How the Band Kept Playing
Bill Graham, Jerry Garcia And Grace Slick On The Evolution Of Music
Bill Graham On The Enduring Appeal Of The Grateful Dead
Mickey Hart on Bill Graham
The Cornell Show Never Happened!?!
Happy Grateful Dead New Year
Letterman Calls Out Jerry Garcia’s Secret Scrabble Moves
Rick Rubin on the Grateful Dead Studio Albums Vs Live
When I Paint My Masterpiece – 7/26/1987 – Anaheim Stadium
When I Paint My Masterpiece
Trey On The Impossible Job Of Replacing Jerry Garcia
A Very Jerry Christmas
Bear Stanley Discusses His Legacy
How Bear Stanley Revolutionized The Dead’s Sound
John Barlow On Bobby Redoing Brother Esau 20 Years Later
John Perry Barlow On Writing Mexicali Blues
The Many Voices of Not Fade Away, Dead’s Most Powerful Promise
Bobby, Phil and Jerry Jam….and Bobby Forgets the Verse
Jerry Explains Hip Economics: How Music Culture Survives
Jerry Garcia: Rap Is Not Music
Festival Express Outtakes: The Bottle Let Me Down
The Dead and the Festival Express
Bob Weir On No Politics No Religion: The Stage Is Not a Pulpit or a Podium
Bill Kreutzman on When Owsley Dosed Playboy After Dark
Bill Walton: When You Get Confused Just Listen To The Music Play
Bob Weir on The Inspiration for Dead Songs
Werewolves in London Jerry Garcia Band 10-31-92
Jerry Talks About Merl Saunders
Merl Saunders On Meeting Jerry Garcia
When Bill Walton Held Up a Dead Show So The Band Can Meet The Celtics
Jerry Garcia Band 1977
Grateful Dead Thanksgiving
Bob Weir Explains the Dead’s Taper Tickets
Brent Mydland On Learning St Stephen
Brent Mydland with Al Franken
The Grateful Dead In Egypt Newscast
The Grateful Dead In Egypt 1978
Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia On The Festival Express
Bob Weir on Pig Pen and Janis Joplin’s Relationship
What the hippie movement is all about
Robert Hunter: Who Really Is The Leader of The Grateful Dead?
The Grateful Dead Are Misfits
The Simpsons’ Surprising Grateful Dead Connection
Bob Weir On The Impact of LSD on The Grateful Dead
Jerry Garcia and Bobby on David Letterman
Bob Weir on Jerry’s Passing and The Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead Good Lovin’ Dec 15 1986
Carlos Santana on His Friendship With The Grateful Dead
Dec 15 1986: The Most Important Dead Show In History
Bob Weir on The Early Days of The Grateful Dead
Bob Weir & John Mayer: Dead & Co’s Evolution
Jerry Garcia’s 1986 Coma
Jerry Garcia on Receiving Fan Mail
Jerry on The Early Days of The Grateful Dead
Bill Walton: The Worlds Tallest Dead Head!
Donna Jean Godchaux At The Capitol Theatre 4-27-1977
RIP Donna Jean Godchaux
Jerry Garcia: I Don’t Have A Gold Plated Rolls Royce
Trey Anastasio Learns Grateful Dead Wisdom from Bill Walton
Bob Marley’s Surprising Role In Grateful Dead History
Owsley Bear Stanley on Life After Acid
Owsley Bear Stanley on using LSD and DMT to Create the Grateful Dead’s Sound
Jerry Garcia: There Is A Certain Kind Of Person That Listens To The Dead
Bill Kreutzmann on What Defines The Grateful Dead’s Sound
Grateful Dead’s Friend of the Devil: The Most Covered Song In Dead History
Phil Lesh’s Most Beautiful Box of Rain Performance Ever (R.I.P.)
Phil & Grahame Lesh Uncover Rare Friend of The Devil Verse
Grateful Dead Meets Sufi Choir: The Missing Recording
Trey Anastasio on Learning 100 Grateful Dead Songs
Bobby Weir’s Bold Move: How Jerry and Phil Changed His Life in High School
Bruce Hornsby Tells a Funny Dead Head Story on Arsenio Hall
Bob Weir On Stage With The Spirits Of Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh & Pigpen
Grateful Dead Casey Kasem Interview on Making Music Is like a Term Paper
Duane Allman Loves the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Rare Interview
Grateful Dead and Fame: Has Success Spoiled The Grateful Dead?
Jerry Garcia: A Grateful Dead Show is Like a Polaroid
Jerry Garcia: Only Now Are We Getting Good – 25 Years of Grateful Dead
Watkins Glen: The Festival Bigger Than Woodstock That Faded From History
Grateful Dead members open up about their plans before bassist Phil Lesh’s death
How Robert Hunter Wrote Casey Jones
Grateful Dead 1995: Fans Storm Fence at Deer Creek
It’s Time to Go – Jerry Garcia on Burnout and the 1974 Hiatus
Phil Lesh: They thought the Grateful Dead name was too weird
Jerry Garcia Learns Guitar from David Letterman
How Acid Tests Shaped the Dead
Bob Weir Discusses Retirement and Legacy
Robert Hunter Explains The Lyrics To Dark Star (sort of!)
Robert Hunter: Grateful Dead Lyricist Spotlight
How Jack Kerouac Inspired Deadhead Culture: Jerry & Bob Explain
Jerry Garcia’s acid story has a way deeper meaning
Jerry Garcia & Gloria Jones – How Sweet It Is (Rare Live Vocal Highlight)
Bob Weir & John Mayer: Grateful Dead’s Musical Legacy
Phil Lesh: The Sound That Shaped the Grateful Dead and Establishing his Legacy
The Grateful Dead’s Indian Classical Secret